Jan 28, 2012 · Try modifying your .desktop file. Look for the [Desktop Entry] for your java file and change the Icon value. Making a "launcher" that will run your script will let you do this. Make a file called MyApp.desktop then edit it with a text editor like gedit. Next paste this code into the file, changing the values for your program- [Desktop Entry]

May 25, 2016 · Use the echo -e flag. paste an emoji you looked up in and do a hexdump to see what it's made of: And then take that top line and escape each hex pair with \x : I actually modified mine to be: plasmarob ~ ⚡. So yes, come up with one …

Feb 8, 2020 · There are a couple of ways around that: 1) Create a wrapper script containing the commands and call the wrapper script on the Exec= line. 2) Launch bash with the -c argument. For approach 2), more practical for just a few commands, …

Jun 24, 2021 · If you want the script to execute in the background, you can set Terminal=false. Remember to give execute permissions to your .sh file if you haven’t done so already. You can do this by running chmod +x /path/to/your/script.sh in the terminal.

Jun 1, 2017 · First, your script must be executable (e.g. chmod +x scriptname), then it is just a matter of following the desktop specific steps to assign a launcher to the script (e.g. kmenuedit in KDE, etc..)

Sep 11, 2016 · In terminal: ln -s /folder/of/the/script/script /home/yourusername/Desktop/linkname.desktop. ln is used to create link to files: the -s switch …

Jun 11, 2021 · A shell script is a text file consisting of a bunch of commands to be executed/interpreted directly or based on some logic. Normally, a shell script file has a ‘.sh’ extension.

Apr 21, 2014 · Instead of saving the script to ~/Desktop, put it in ~/bin and then make a .desktop file for the script. Save the .desktop file to your ~/Desktop folder. In the .desktop file, you can specify a path to an icon you want. Example: Here is a .desktop file to start a script (machinarium) located in ~/bin that in turn sets up and runs the game ...

Jun 22, 2012 · Can I create an icon to run a shell script and install it on the panel? I am running Cinnamon 1.4 on LM13-64.

Jun 3, 2020 · To display an icon in the widget, instead, we can use the --icon-name option and provide one of the allowed icon names (here is the complete list) as argument. To use the stock icons provided in the error, info, question, or warning dialogues, for example, we can specify respectively: dialog-error, dialog-info, dialog-question or dialog-warning.